Matt,
You didn't mention the height of your tower or if it is crank-up or
guyed. If it's a crank-up, I'd just lower the tower when a storm is expected.
If the tower has no other guying, think about where your tower is
going to be flexing during that hypothetical severe storm, while the
mast is guyed and the base is in concrete. While I don't have an
engineering degree, I'm picturing the tower flexing in the
middle. Seems like the tower would fail in the middle. I'd rather
lose the antenna, instead of an expensive tower. I'm sure there is
someone with engineering experience here that can use facts instead
of speculation.
Bill W6RGS
At 11:45 AM 2/12/2014, Matt wrote:
I know the subject line sounds dumb,, but I have 15' of mast above
my tower and live in South Florida. Read on...
Im thinking of putting a guy ring at about 12' above the top of the
tower, and, only in event of a severe storm, attach 3 guy wires,
which would be anchored in concrete, the cables sitting on the
ground, affixing them to the collar in event of storm.
I've also thought of having short guy wires permanently mounted
on the guy ring collar, with the short guy cables running down the
mast to the top of the tower. Then i could climb up and attach the
guy wires, if needed. No need for a bucket truck.
I think this would provide additional survivability to the mast in heavy wind
Any thoughts on this? Good idea, bad?
Thanks/73
Matt w1mbb
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